Crack a cold one, throw Flight of the Valkyries on the turntable and enjoy the spectacle of all the soaring swine. That’s right boys and girls, Rick Mercer said something with which I am in total agreement. He actually manages to take all the criticism of Harper’s stance with China and, in what I must admit is a very Canadian fashion, put it in just the right light.

No, I haven’t been drinking. Well, not that much anyway. Here, see for yourself and see what you think.

So the Donkeys of the far left are once again braying about getting the hell out of Dodge Iraq, PDQ. They say that pulling out will save the lives of innocent civilians. It makes one wonder: just how far up your backside does your head need to be before guys that sit around drawing cartoons all the time have figured out the lessons of history better than you have?

Just wondering, of course.

Well, as usual on the weekends, no time to do much at all online. So, with that in mind, here’s an amusing little something that I stumbled over that I thought I’d toss up here. I figured it might be fitting, what with the smoking poll still running and all: 😀

Take off, light up, chill out on smokers’ airline

POSTED: 1113 GMT (1913 HKT), November 8, 2006

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — “We would like to remind passengers that smoking is permitted on this flight.”

It has been a long time since most European air travelers heard anything like this, but a German entrepreneur has set up an airline that will give its customers the freedom to chain-smoke from take-off to landing.

Alexander Schoppmann, the 55-year-old founder of Smoker’s International Airways — Smintair — said he got the idea for a smokers’ haven in the heavens after he’d had enough of expensive non-smoking long-haul flights with poor service.

“I got so annoyed that ticket prices were rising while service was getting worse,” said Schoppmann, who is a 20-a-day cigarette smoker.

Once Smintair flights begin in October 2007, smoking will be allowed in all 138 seats aboard a spacious Smintair Boeing 747. Normal airlines fit up to 559 passengers in a 747.

“The crew can smoke as well,” the former stockbroker said.

Schoppmann came up with the idea as Germany considers toughening its smoking regulations, among the most lenient in Europe. Germans have been loath to ban smoking because of memories of Adolf Hitler, who forbade it in public places.

The rest of the article can be found here. And now, I’m off to move my buddy… 🙄

These things have been popping up on YouTube like daisies lately. I’m going to have to find a bunch and post them in a batch one of these days. Remember that infamous “soldiers in the streets” bit of fearmongering that the HypoGrits tried to pull last January that came back (in a helluva hurry) to bite ’em right where the sun don’t shine? Ever wonder what it would look like if conservatives resorted to the sort of leftist-style attack ads that we saw in the last federal election? Oh, it’d be snarky, alright. Truthful, but snarky. Come to think of it, it would probably look something like this:

GLEE! GLEE!

I’ve practically got it coming out the wazoo. Glee, that is. I know, I know; it’s poor sportsmanship, in bad taste and all that. But, like Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas morning, I just can’t help it!

Alright; calming down now; taking a deep breath and all that. Just what is it that’s got me so obnoxiously happy, you want to know? Okay, I’ll tell you.

Everybody knows that politicians have an amusing tendency to shoot themselves in the foot every now and then. King Ralph seems to have a bead permanently drawn on his big toe but then, Ralph seems to have kevlar boots, too. 🙄 Anyways, the Freeps, along with a bunch of other MSM outlets, is yoleling away about how local HypoGrit Dave Burghardt has nuked himself in the foot, and MP wannabe Glen Pearson was nowhere near minimum safe distance. It seems that ol’ Dave was a blogger a while ago (but it’s all gone POOF now) and was displaying signs of a decidedly unHypoGritical mindset. Some of the more damaging examples from today’s Freeps:

Belinda Stronach’s defection from the Conservatives to the Liberals: “All this demonstrates one more reason why women shouldn’t be allowed to run for office, much less vote. It is a fool who looks (for) logic in the chambers of the female mind.” (May 18, 2005).

Grits: “What it means to be Liberal was long ago replaced with greed, expediency and corruption…. the Liberal Party is dying, suffering from a chronic case of no ideas, no leaders and no ability to do anything about it.” (March 19, 2006).

Kyoto: “The idea behind Kyoto is so utterly stupid it’s no wonder our loony left has embraced it as the environmental saviour. . . Kyoto is nothing but PR — it won’t work, it’s only a chance for international leaders to get their pictures taken together looking like environmentalists.” (March 28, 2005);

Muslim feelings of alienation: “If the Muslim community feels alienated from the rest of Canada, pass the Ny-Quil because I won’t be able to sleep tonight.” (July 20, 2005).

😯 Oh, poop. Women shouldn’t vote? And the Moonbat Brigade likes to hoot about US supposedly being a bunch of mean, nasty, lowbrow, knuckle-dragging, protohuman… ah, you get the idea. 😆 Seeing the Librano$ getting flogged with their own favourite stick like this is enough to give me wood of my own. 😉

To give some credit to the poor bugger, Pearson did pinkslip the blowhard Burghardt immediately after finding out about the blog on Sunday morning. He then promptly proved, once and for all, that he really is a typical so-open-minded-his-brain-fell-out liberal: he went to Dipper rival Megan Walker and, well… See for yourself:

“I did say to her, ‘Megan, it is up to you and your team what you want to do about it, but Dave is a friend of mine,’ and I hoped she would do the right thing. These kinds of things can affect a person and I wanted her to be thinking about that.”

Walker, naturally, promptly ran to the nearest media stooge she could find and tattled:

“This raises some very serious questions about Glen Pearson’s judgment,” said Walker

I agree with the Dipper. Yes, you read that right. This does raise questions (and damned serious ones, at that) about Glen Pearson’s judgement. Anyone that can possibly be so naive as to think, whether through ignorance or willful self-deception, that a fawning footsoldier in the rabid regiments of the Looney Left somehow would refrain from exploiting anything and everything that they can get their hands on (usually in the most crass, lowest-common-denominator fashion) for political gain is clearly too deluded to be trusted with public office of any kind.

Bye, Glen. It was fun while it lasted.

Now I remember why I’ve always liked cartoonists’ acumen…